Das Wüten der ganzen Welt

Synopsis of Das Wüten der ganzen Welt

«Das Wüten der ganzen Welt» is the novel by Maarten 't Hart, published by Piper in paperback (410 pages, in German).

The novel narrates the young years of Alexander Goudveyl, a boy who dreams of becoming a composer, in the south of the Netherlands. His story intertwines with an unsolved crime: the murder of a policeman in 1956, during an evangelistic campaign, and with a frustrated escape on a herring boat in 1940. It combines mystery, psychology and personal development.

Originally published in Dutch as «Het woeden der gehele wereld» in 1993, with German translation by Marianne Holberg. It won the Gouden Strop and the Martin Beck Award in 1994.

For readers of mystery and coming-of-age novels, with a social and religious portrait of the Netherlands in the fifties and sixties.